Just by coincidence Rachel Maddow was on
Bill Maher last night shortly after Olbermann
made his sudden exit from MSNBC and had this to say:

Yeah, it's been a big day at MSNBC...at least it's been a big 15
minutes...I know very little about it, all I know is that it was
between Keith and the company and it didn't involve any of the
rest of us and he was really gracious and nice when he left.

Sounds like Maddow, and likely the rest of the office, had a
sense this was coming for a while.

Maher says he saw the writing on the wall
when Olbermann renamed his 'Worst Persons in the World
Segment: "Stop organizing life around the people who don’t get
the joke. F*ck them if they don’t get a joke....Well, I always
enjoyed his show, I hope he comes back.”